NATO’s recent parliamentary visit to India signals growing interest in deeper ties with a rising Indo-Pacific power. Anastasia Crook examines the opportunities and challenges shaping the NATO-India relationship, and how to build a practical, interest-based partnership without pressing India to pick a side.
Although Canada achieved its 2% NATO target, it still struggles to turn that spending into modern, ready, and deployable military capability. With the new 5% pledge, Canada must rethink how it budgets and delivers defence investments to generate usable and efficient military power.
The 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara presented a unique opportunity to uphold the importance of NATO’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the pursuit of collective security. Growing concerns over Turkey’s domestic humanitarian record underscored a deeper importance to this conversation. Nonetheless, at a time where confrontation is often chosen over conversation, the Summit offered a reminder of the importance of the willingness to gather. Through an examination of key discussions on gender-responsive security at the Ankara Summit, this article contends that the willingness to gather must be matched by a willingness to act. The Alliance’s greatest strength lies in its continued capacity to choose diplomacy, have hard conversations, and hold one another accountable for transforming dialogue into durable action.
The declining cost of war, driven by cheap first-person-view (FPV) drones, commercially available components, and rapidly diffusing battlefield innovation, is lowering the financial barriers to enter conflicts, both for state and non-state actors. This risks increasing the frequency and territory impacted by armed conflict and, by extension, expands the risk of entrapment to NATO countries.
Canada has the institutions, the reports, and the warnings about disinformation. What it lacks is a population that feels the threat. In this article, Dominique Arseneau-Bruneau looks at how Canada’s lack of urgency affects its response to disinformation through the lens of legality, legitimacy, and speed, and what the cost of that comfort may ultimately be.
As some of history’s greatest military strategists have contended, human will is central to conflict. Yet, as emerging technologies capable of altering emotions, reasoning, and ultimately, human will, are progressively used to cause divide and modify conduct, NATO must place increasing importance on the cognitive domain of conflict.
Geopolitical competition in the Arctic is intensifying due to increased access to the region driven by climate change and interest in precious oil and other resources. In response to the growing need for security and surveillance on our nation’s Northern front, Canada’s ongoing discussions with Sweden to acquire the GlobalEye platform and produce Saab aircraft will significantly enhance Canada and NATO’s ability to monitor and respond to emerging threats across the North.
As social media becomes the primary source of political information for younger generations, Russian disinformation campaigns increasingly exploit digital platforms to undermine trust, fuel polarization, and discourage democratic participation. By examining today’s younger generation as a strategic target of information warfare, this article explores how disinformation has evolved into a growing challenge for democratic resilience and NATO’s collective security.
NATO’s 2025 Science and Technology Organization Highlights report offers a snapshot of an Alliance pushing technological boundaries while struggling to align the systems behind them. Across data fusion, autonomy, and multidomain operations, innovation is accelerating faster than integration. These seams now shape the contours of NATO’s modernization challenge.
Rachel Potter analyzes the Trump administration’s suspension of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, arguing that it marks a qualitative shift in U.S. alliance behaviour in which shared defence institutions are weaponized as instruments of coercion, revealing a strategic logic that goes beyond burden sharing disputes and instead reflects an effort to reshape the institutional architecture of continental defence on American terms.